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Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. [vol.…Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol.…
Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. [vol. 2, part 1] with an universal history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitive age to these latter times of ours, with the bloody times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions against the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperors, as now lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realm of England and Scotland. Newly revised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time again published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the help of Christ our Lord) John Fox, which desireth thee good reader to help him with thy prayer.Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol. 2, part 1] with an vniuersall history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitiue age to these latter tymes of ours, with the bloudy times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions agaynst the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperours, as nowe lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realme of England and Scotland. Newly reuised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time agayne published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the helpe of Christ our Lord) Iohn Foxe, which desireth thee good reader to helpe him with thy prayer.
London: printed by John Daye, 1583London: printed by Iohn Daye, 1583
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Solum est quòd in tua justicia pertimescimus, ne non pro lenitatis Christianae consideratione, sed pro immanitate facinorum censeas coercendum. Quod te per ipsum Christum ne facias obsecramus: sic enim peccata compescenda sunt, ut supersint quos peccasse poeniteat.1 Illud etiam Augustini volumus te recordari, quod ait: Nihil nocendi fiat cupiditate, omnia consulendi charitate: & nihil fiat immaniter, nihil inhumaniter. Idem de eodem: In timore Christi in nomine Christi exhortor: Quicunque non habetis temporalia, habere non cupiatis: quicunque habetis, in eis non praesumatis. Dico autem, non si ista habetis, damnamini: sed si in istis praesumatis, damnamini: si propter talia magni vobis videamini: si generis humani conditionem communem propter excellentem unitatem,2 obliviscamini. Quod nimirum poculum discretionis ex illo fonte Apostolicae hauserat praedicationis: Solutus es ab uxore, noli quaerere uxorem: alligatus es uxori, noli quaerere solutionem. Ubi & subditur: Qui habent uxores, sint tanquam non habentes: & qui utuntur mundo, tanquam non utantur. Idem dicit de vidua: Cui vult nubat, tantum in Domino. Nubere in Domino est, nihil in contrahendo connubio quod Dominus prohibeat, attentare. Jeremias quoque ait: Nolite consider in verbis mendacij, dicentes: Templū Domini, templum Domini, tē plum Domini est. Quod Hieronimus exponens: Potest (inquit) & hoc illis virginibus conuenire,3 quae jactant pudicitiam suam impudenti vultu: praeferunt castitatem, cum aliud habeat conscientia: & nesciunt illam Apostoli definitionem de virgine, ut sit sancta corpore & spiritu. Quid enim prodest corporis pudicitia, animo constuprato, si caeteras virtutes, quas Propheticus sermo describit, non habuerit? Quas quidem, quia te aliquatenus habere videmus, & quia discretionem, licet in hac re neglectam, in alijs tamen vitae tuae constitutionibus eam honestè conseruatam non ignoramus: huius intentionis pravitatem te citò correcturum non desperamus. Et ideo non quanta possumus gravitate, istam licet gravissimam negligentiā corripimus, vel judicamus. Quanquam enim secundū vocabula quae usus obtinuit, sit Episcopatus Praesbyterio maior: tamen Augustinus Hieronymo minor est, & à minori quolibet non est refugienda correptio: praesertim cum is qui corripitur, & contra veritatem, & pro hominibus niti inuenitur. Neque enim, ut ait sanctus Augustinus ad Bonifaciū: